Category: A List Apart

From pixels to prose, coding to content.

  • CSS3: Love vendor prefixes, resize full-screen backgrounds

    CSS3: Love vendor prefixes, resize full-screen backgrounds

    Learn to love vendor prefixes and create full-screen backgrounds that resize to fit the viewport in Issue No. 309 of A List Apart for people who make websites: Prefix or Posthack by ERIC MEYER Vendor…

  • Episode 9: Web Standards

    Episode 9: Web Standards

    Today at 1:00 PM EDT, join Dan Benjamin and me live as we interview designer, developer, author, lecturer, and bon vivant Ethan Marcotte (bio | blog | Twitter) for Episode 9 of The Big Web…

  • Responsive design is the new black

    Responsive design is the new black

    The blog of Mr Simon Collison, retooled as responsive web design. The wide version. The blog of Mr Simon Collison, retooled as responsive web design. The narrow version. See more versions in Mr Collison’s “Media…

  • Remote User Testing

    Remote User Testing

    User research doesn’t have to be expensive and time-consuming. With online applications, you can test your designs, wireframes, and prototypes over the phone and your computer with ease and aplomb. A List Apart: Articles: Quick…

  • Responsive Web Design

    Responsive Web Design

    Hot dang! Use fluid grids, flexible images, and CSS media queries to create elegant user experiences that fit any browser or device’s viewport. By Ethan Marcotte, co-author of Designing With Web Standards 3rd Edition. A…

  • A Feed Apart 2.0

    A Feed Apart 2.0

    As promised, a super-hot update to A Feed Apart, the official feed aggregator for An Event Apart, is up and running for your web design conference pleasure. You can now tweet from inside the application,…

  • Something’s coming

    Something’s coming

    Could be! Who knows? There’s something due any day; I will know right away, Soon as it shows.

  • AEA Minneapolis

    AEA Minneapolis

    An Event Apart, the design conference for people who make websites, has posted its Minneapolis 2010 schedule. Join Eric Meyer and me and ten amazing guest speakers on July 26-27, 2010 for two great days…

  • A List Apart No. 305

    A List Apart No. 305

    In Issue No. 305 of A List Apart for people who make websites, Jack Cheng finds creative genius embedded in our everyday tools, habits, and spaces; and Jeremy Keith offers “A Brief History of Markup”—AKA…

  • A Feed Apart preview

    A Feed Apart preview

    Ali Ali describes the design process behind the forthcoming revision to A Feed Apart, the official Twitter aggregator for An Event Apart. Read about it now, experience it very, very soon.

  • A List Apart No. 304

    A List Apart No. 304

    Issue 304 of A List Apart for people who make websites squeezes JavaScript and delves into faceted navigation: Better JavaScript Minification by NICHOLAS C. ZAKAS Like CSS, JavaScript works best when stored in an external…

  • What the FAQ?

    What the FAQ?

    In Issue No. 303 of A List Apart, for people who make websites, we question the received wisdom about FAQs, and learn that, in the land of the colorblind, contrast is king. Contrast is King…

  • A List Apart: Just the Stats

    A List Apart: Just the Stats

    Continuing with our “data, and what we can learn from it” theme, here are A List Apart‘s four most popular individual pages this week (excluding the home page, with 178,270 page views). Pay particular attention…

  • E-books, Flash, and Standards

    E-books, Flash, and Standards

    In Issue No. 302 of A List Apart for people who make websites, Joe Clark explains what E-book designers can learn from 10 years of standards-based web design, and Daniel Mall tells designers what they…

  • Future of Online News

    Future of Online News

    Many website designers run their own niche blog, and if the content is unique enough, a designer might be able to sell subscriptions to it. The content has to be very high quality, though, and…